Syllabus

  • UNIT I BASIC CONCEPTS: (6hrs) Scope of thermodynamics; Definition of system, control volume, state and path function, equilibrium, reversibility, energy, work and heat. zeroth law; temperature scales.
  • UNIT II THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF REAL GASES: (7hrs) PVT behaviour of fluids; Mathematical representation of PVT behaviour; Generalized compressibility factor correlation; Generalized equations of state.
  • UNIT III LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS: (12hrs) Joule’s experiment, internal energy, first law, energy balance for closed systems, mass and energy balance for open systems Statements of the second law of thermodynamics, heat engine and refrigerator, Carnot cycle and Carnot theorems, thermodynamic temperature scale, entropy and its calculation, second law of thermodynamics for a control volume, Third law of thermodynamics, entropy from a microscopic point of view.
  • UNIT IV THERMODYNAMIC FORMULATIONS: (12hrs) Thermodynamic potentials – internal energy, enthalpy, Helmholtz free energy, Gibbs free energy; thermodynamic property relations – Maxwell relations – partial derivatives and Jacobian method; residual properties; thermodynamic property tables and diagrams.
  • UNIT V APPLICATION OF THERMODYNAMICS TO FLOW PROCESSES: (8hrs) Duct flow of compressible fluids, Compression and expansion processes, steam power plant, internal combustion engines, jet and rocket engines.